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And while this "momentum" builds, Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) engages in further character assassination of Snowden: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07...

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Many a Bay Area native is offended that Feinstein is one of our senators. The sanctimonious blow hard is only out for one cause -- herself. Just google conceal carry and feinstein. Not to mention, many hated her as mayor of SF.

I look forward to the day she is no longer "serving" the people of California.

Put your money where your mouth is. Support a primary challenge against her. If the challenge gets any real momentum at all, she will be forced to recant and change her tone. Consider that the Tea Party actually beat several decades-long Republicans in primary challenges and that our privacy is a nearly universal concern among voters.

I've been voting against her every chance I have because of her 2a views.

> Asked whether Snowden has shared the information, Feinstein said: “We don’t know.”

Set aside whether you are with or against what Snowden did, this what Feinstein said is exactly the reason why those systems should not exist in the first place. Imagine someone hacking into NSA (if you say its impossible then I have 640 kilobytes memory for you that will least you a lifetime) and downloading all the phonecalls and emails and those in the office right now. Disaster.

The existence of this data IS the biggest terrorist threat to this country, or many other countries in that matter. Unfortunately such a disgusting heretic blob as Feinstein herself will never understand it.

Any leadership on the Intelligence Committee will back these programs to the bitter end---they set it up, it's their judgement under scrutiny, and they have the most to lose politically and historically.

Feinstein was one of the supporters of the "Clipper" chip in the 1990s, a play to have all crypto keys in government hands.

It's not surprising. I'm amazed that anyone in Silicon Valley is willing to vote for her.

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